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Valerie Bertinelliis welcoming in better days.
On Sunday, the Food Network star shared a post commemorating her 63rd birthday, which is a major milestone for Bertinelli — it’s her first since her divorce from ex husbandTom Vitalewas finalized in November.
In an Instagram post, she revealed she was at the Amsterdam airport and that she’d be spending her birthday in Europe watching her son,Wolfgang Van Halen, perform. In the clip, she excitedly spun around her rolling suitcase as Connor Price’s “Grateful” played.
“I am so over the moon grateful on my birthday this year! 🙏🏻🤍,” she wrote in the caption. “I have survived the hardest six years of my life and now I’m in Amsterdam (one of my favorite places on earth with sweet special memories 🥹).”
She then shared exciting details about her son, who performs under the name Mammoth WVH.
“And on Thursday, I get to watch my son open for Metallica! 🤘🏻🎤 🎸,” she wrote. “Life is good.”
In the past, Bertinelli has spoken candidly about people who endure emotional abuse in their relationships.
“When it comes to emotional abuse and mental abuse, it’s not talked about, because you just think, ‘I’m not being physically abused, so it’s not abuse,'” Bertinelli said in an Instagram post in January.
Shehas saidthat through “journaling, therapy and especially humor,” she is healing.
Earlier this month, theHot in Clevelandstar shared an Instagram Story telling fans that the 14th season ofValerie’s Home Cookingwill be its last after theFood Network canceled the showlast summer.
However, an inside source told PEOPLE at the time that the actress will stay on the network’sKids Baking Championship. She already shot the next season, added the source. Bertinelli co-hosts the competition series alongsideDuff Goldman.
In the Instagram video announcing the news, she was clearly upset with the decision to nix her show, which premiered in 2015. She even admitted she was hoping the Food Network “would change their minds” after they canceled the show.
“I got some good news, and I got some bad news,” Bertinelli said in a video. “The good news is that tomorrow at 12 noon on Food Network, the 14th season ofValerie’s Home Cookingstarts airing all-new episodes. The bad news is that it’s its final season.”
“Food Network canceled us last summer, I have no idea why. And I didn’t say anything last summer because honestly, I was hoping they would change their mind. But they have not. So this is it, this is the final season,” continued Bertinelli.
She said she “loved making this show,” adding, “It was such a dream come true. Every single part of it brought me so much joy.
source: people.com
